FACTORY-DIRECT OEM / ODM MANUFACTURING
Custom Metal Products for Awards, Recognition and Promotion
Gairun is an OEM/ODM manufacturer of custom metal products for business buyers. We supply five main product families: custom medals, challenge coins, lapel pins and badges, metal trophies and plaques, and keychains and bottle openers.
Each family has a different physical form and purpose. A medal is made to be worn or presented, while a challenge coin is a compact commemorative piece. Pins attach to clothing or other surfaces. Trophies and plaques are displayed. Keychains and bottle openers are portable products that may also have a practical function.
If you know the type of item you need, go directly to that category. If you are still comparing formats, use the overview and table to narrow your choice.
Compare the Five Custom Metal Product Families
The right category starts with the form of the finished item. Consider how it will be carried, worn, presented or displayed. This first choice will lead you to the relevant styles within that product family.
- Custom medals: Wearable or presented metal awards, including sports, marathon, relief and moving designs.
- Challenge coins: Compact commemorative pieces with artwork on one or both faces.
- Lapel pins and badges: Small attachment-backed items for identity, recognition or branding.
- Metal trophies and plaques: Standing or mounted awards intended for presentation and display.
- Keychains and bottle openers: Portable metal items, including functional and mixed-material formats.
These categories can share visual elements such as logos, text or sculpted details, but they are not interchangeable. Selecting the physical format first makes it easier to compare the relevant product styles without reviewing options that do not fit the item you plan to source.
Custom Medals for Wearable and Presented Awards
Custom medals are metal awards designed to be worn, handed to a recipient or presented as part of an award program. This family includes marathon medals, sports medals, 3D relief medals, and spinning or combined commemorative structures.
A medal is usually the clearest category when the item must read as a personal award. Its form separates it from a challenge coin, which is held or displayed rather than worn, and from a trophy, which has a standing or mounted format.
Visit the medal category to compare these structures and continue to the dedicated pages for marathon, 3D relief, spinning and combination medal formats.
Marathon and sports medals
use the familiar presented-award format.
3D relief medals
use sculpted depth to form raised subjects and layered features.
Spinning medals
include a rotating element within the main medal structure.
Combination medals
bring multiple parts together in one commemorative design.
Challenge Coins for Compact Commemorative Pieces
Custom challenge coins are compact metal pieces used to carry an emblem, message, date or commemorative design. Unlike medals, they are not defined by a wearable award format. Unlike lapel pins, they do not depend on a rear attachment.
The challenge coin family includes military and public safety coins, corporate anniversary coins, institutional commemorative coins, and high-relief or dual-plated collectible formats. Each subtype supports a different visual structure while remaining part of the same coin category.
Choose this family when the required product is a self-contained coin rather than a wearable medal, attachment-backed badge or standing award.
Military and public safety coins
can present organization-specific insignia or identity.
Corporate anniversary coins
can feature company marks, milestone dates and messages.
Institutional challenge coins
provide a compact commemorative format for an organization.
High-relief and dual-plated coins
use sculpted depth or two plating tones as defining design features.
Lapel Pins and Badges for Small Attachment-Backed Items
Custom lapel pins and badges are compact metal products made with an attachment-backed form. They can carry a logo, symbol, name or graphic in a format suited to clothing, presentation cards and other supported uses.
This family covers several verified construction styles. Soft enamel creates colored areas within metal outlines. Imitation hard enamel provides a smoother enamel face. Die-struck and die-cast products use formed metal detail, while printed badges can reproduce graphics on the metal surface. A clear epoxy coating is also available for printed or decorated badge formats.
Select this category when attachment is a defining feature of the item. Detailed comparisons between enamel, formed metal and printed constructions are covered within the pin and badge category and its subtype pages.
Soft enamel pins
Imitation hard enamel pins
Die-struck badges
Die-cast pins and badges
Printed badges
Epoxy-coated badges
Metal Trophies and Plaques for Displayed Recognition
Custom metal trophies and plaques are presented awards designed for standing, mounting or formal display. Their larger display format distinguishes them from medals, coins, badges and portable promotional items.
The family includes custom metal trophies and corporate recognition plaques as well as products that combine metal with wood or crystal. The metal element may form the main award or work as a branded component within a mixed-material structure.
This is the appropriate family when the final product must be displayed as a trophy or plaque. The category pages cover each format separately so buyers can compare the structure that matches their intended award.
Metal trophies
use metal components in a dimensional standing award.
Corporate recognition plaques
provide a mounted or presented display format.
Wood-and-metal plaques
combine a wood body or base with custom metal elements.
Crystal-and-metal trophies
coordinate a crystal body with metal branding or award details.
Keychains and Bottle Openers for Portable Metal Products
Custom keychains and bottle openers are portable products that can combine branding with an everyday carry or functional format. They are distinct from recognition products because the physical item is built around carrying, attachment or opening use.
The category includes all-metal keychains, functional bottle openers, leather-and-metal keychains, and related promotional metal gifts. A bottle opener may be designed as a stand-alone piece or connected to a carry format. A leather-and-metal keychain combines a metal emblem or component with a leather section and connecting hardware.
Choose this family when portability or practical use is central to the product. Specific decisions about opener features, attachments and mixed-material construction belong on the relevant category and subtype pages.
Metal keychains
use a custom metal body connected to a keyring format.
Bottle openers
combine custom branding with an opener feature.
Leather-and-metal keychains
coordinate mixed materials in one carry item.
Which Metal Product Format Fits Your Item?
Use this comparison to identify the closest physical format. The subtype examples show where you can continue your review after choosing a family.
| Product family | Physical format | Distinguishing feature | Subtype examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom medals | Wearable or presented award | Recognizable medal structure | Marathon, sports, 3D relief, spinning and combined medals |
| Challenge coins | Compact commemorative coin | Self-contained coin face and reverse | Military, public safety, anniversary, institutional, high-relief and dual-plated coins |
| Lapel pins and badges | Small attachment-backed item | Made to attach to clothing or another supported surface | Soft enamel, imitation hard enamel, die-struck, die-cast, printed and epoxy-coated formats |
| Metal trophies and plaques | Standing or mounted display award | Designed for presentation and display | Metal trophies, recognition plaques, wood-metal plaques and crystal-metal trophies |
| Keychains and bottle openers | Portable carry or functional item | Keyring, mixed-material or opener function | Metal keychains, bottle openers and leather-metal keychains |
Choose the Category That Matches Your Product
Start with the finished form rather than detailed decoration. Choose medals for wearable or presented awards, coins for compact commemorative pieces, pins and badges for attachment-backed items, trophies and plaques for display awards, or keychains and bottle openers for portable products.
If you have already selected a product and defined its requirements, you can also request a project-specific quotation.